Elections BC compiles and maintains a list of eligible voters as well as sets and adjusts the boundaries of electoral districts.

To retain their official status, political parties must file annual financial reports with Elections BC.

[2][3] Registration entitles parties to have their name on the ballot where they run candidates, issue tax receipts and spend on election campaigns.

[11] In 2015, Elections BC spent $5,372,380 to administer the 2015 Metro Vancouver Transportation and Transit Plebiscite, a cost of about $3.44 per voter.

About 62 per cent of Metro Vancouver voters rejected a proposal for a half-per-cent sales tax increase to fund a 10-year, $7.5-billion upgrade to transportation by TransLink.

Prior to that time, the responsibility for overseeing elections had been assigned to the registrar of the Supreme Court from 1871 to 1899, then to the deputy provincial secretary from 1899 to 1940.